The 50th Glenfiddich Piping Championship took place on October 28, 2023, and The National Piping Centre’s YouTube team were on hand to capture what goes on behind the scenes and make the event happen. We hear from some of the people that make the event happen including Helen Urquhart (Head […]
The RCS Piping Degree Showcase Concert takes place in The National Piping Centre Auditorium on Monday, December 4 at 7pm. This year’s BMus Piping Degree Showcase concert will gather music from places across Scotland. Each year group has been assigned a locality of Scotland from which to draw their repertoire. […]
Bagpipe.news reader, Mary Ann Macleod, recorded and uploaded videos from the Angus D. and Angus J. MacColl concert, which was organised by Lewis & Harris Piping Society on Friday, November 17. The Society organise the prestigious Donald MacLeod Invitational Solo Piping Competition which was won by Callum Beaumont in April […]
Celtic Connections offers something for every piping taste, whether it be pipe bands, Scots trad music performers and bands playing Highland Pipes and bellows pipes, or performers from across European piping traditions. Twenty one Celtic Connections concerts have been uploaded here on the bagpipe.news event calendar, starting on January 19 […]
The Pittsburgh Piping Society in conjunction with Carnegie Mellon University will host the second Jimmy McIntosh MBE Piobaireachd Workshop from February 9 to 11, 2024. The workshop will be held in the Cohon University Center at Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213. Instructors will be Mike Cusack, Amy Garson […]
The Lewis & Harris Piping Society continue their 2023 recital series this Friday, November 17, with father and son, Angus D. and Angus J. MacColl. The recital takes place at the Caladh Inn, which is a short walk from Stornoway town centre. The Society organise the prestigious Donald MacLeod Invitational Solo […]
Ullapool and Gairloch pupils have been granted sets of pipes on loan from the Scottish Schools Pipes and Drums Trust. Twenty pupils at Ullapool and Gairloch High Schools and associated primary schools in Achiltibuie, Ullapool, Gairloch, Poolewe and Bualnaluib will benefit from the award. Piping Instructor Eddie Seaman comments: “We […]
The Archie Kenneth Quaich competition is on Saturday, February 24, 2024, at Royal Scottish Pipers’ Society, Edinburgh, starting at 9.30am. Entries and enquiries should be sent to: peter.mccalister@doctors.org.uk. Closing date is January 7, 2024. Competitors should submit two tunes with their entry. The tune selected by the judges will be given on […]
The attention of the solo piping world will head south at the end of this week when the Scottish Piping Society of London hold the prestigious Bratach Gorm. The competition is on Friday, November 3 in the Caledonian Club in London, with other professional events and competitions for A, B […]
The overall winner of the prestigious Glenfiddich Piping Championship 2023 has been named as Callum Beaumont, as the event celebrates five decades of sensational piping. The prestigious Championship, which was first held in 1974, was founded by Sandy Grant Gordon of William Grant and Sons, and Seumas MacNeill who was […]
